On the Latin Language, Volume II by Varro, Roland G. Kent - 9780674993686

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On the Latin Language, Volume IIBooks 810. Fragments\nAuthor(s): Varro, Roland G. Kent\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: LOEB\nISBN-13: 9780674993686, 978-0674993686\nSynopsis\nAncient Roman word lore.\n\nVarro (M. Terentius), 11627 BC, of Reate, renowned for his vast learning, was an antiquarian, historian, philologist, student of science, agriculturist, and poet. He was a republican who was reconciled to Julius Caesar and was marked out by him to supervise an intended national library. \n\n Of Varros more than seventy works involving hundreds of volumes we have only his treatise On Agriculture (in LCL 283) and part of his monumental achievement De Lingua Latina (On the Latin Language), a work typical of its authors interest not only in antiquarian matters but also in the collection of scientific facts. Originally it consisted of twenty-five books in three parts: etymology of Latin words (Books 17); their inflections and other c.